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Why is protecting life a crime? : Comments
By Graham Preston, published 2/12/2004Graham Preston argues that when it comes to unborn children we are hypocritical
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- reversible contraception that is 100% effective rather than 99% (applied to both women and men at puberty and only reversed after they made the decision to become parents)
- the ability to transfer the foetus out of the woman to mature elsewhere (in cases where the woman's life is at risk)
I believe it is a woman's right to decide whether she brings a child into this world or not from her body, and the community as a whole is better off leaving that decision up to the individual whose life it effects the most.
After these conditions are met one could then argue that the mother has no right to reverse her decision to become a parent after she has already made it and created life, but I don't believe that in the current cirumstances such a decision has been made. Sexual activity and intimacy are part of a normal & healthy life, not a decision to become a parent.
In the end it is a woman's right to choose the course of her life, so I would suggest to those who don't approve of abortions that their efforts would be better directed towards making them unnecessary.